On Apr 15, 2014, at 4:46 AM, Stephen Turner <stephen.tur...@citrix.com> wrote:
> As I said in the previous threaed, I'm +1 on the principle. It will avoid > confusion between straight Xen and XenServer. It will also allow us to offer > a non-XenServer Xen implementation. > > Sebastien, as all the filenames have changed, it's not clear from the diff > whether this is just a straight renaming with no other changes. Could you > confirm that? > That's what it looks like, basically it creates a 'xenserver' plugin I know Tim has a prototype of Xen support as well, but it was not in this commit it seems. > Also, are there any backwards compatibility implications for the API? Or did > we already use "XenServer" instead of "Xen" there? > In the CloudStack API ? We are probably using Xen as value in several api calls…so we will need to check this carefully before any merge, we definitely don't want to break backward compatibility, or if we do we will need to move to 5.0 > -- > Stephen Turner > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:run...@gmail.com] > Sent: 15 April 2014 08:36 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: [ACS4.5] move from xen 2 xenserver > > Folks, > > I just applied a patch from Tim Mackey: > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=commit;h=748b575af8a66c58b0d52e7457e4d4e1e875231f > > commit: 748b575af8a66c58b0d52e7457e4d4e1e875231f > > This followed a [PROPOSAL] thread [1] > > This was pushed into a separate branch: xen2server > > This is a significant change that we should get consensus on and merge to > master relatively quickly to avoid any conflicts later on. > > Basically, we have been treating xen and xenserver the same so far, since the > integration with Xen (i.e Xen Project) was/is done via xapi. > > There has been discussion to integrate with Xen using straight up libvirt, by > creating a new Xen agent probably based on the KVM agent and there was some > discussion to that effect in the Denver Hackathon. > > Making a clear split between Xen and Xenserver type of hypervisors will help > support different integration methods. > > I have asked Tim (in the review message) to create a wiki page, discussing > all of this, but I wanted to give a heads up that this just hit the repo and > that we should see a [MERGE] thread quickly. > > thoughts, flames ? > > > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/yrl3ii7gqlaaexij > > -Sebastien >
